Star Technologies Inc of Sterling, Virginia claims its new Vector Processing Series of high-performance attached vector processors, at up to 100 MFLOPS, are the fastest 32-bit CMOS attached processors available. The VP-2 is a dual compute head version of the 50 MFLOPS VP-1 and they take up 21 of a 19 rack. The VP Series […]
Star Technologies Inc of Sterling, Virginia claims its new Vector Processing Series of high-performance attached vector processors, at up to 100 MFLOPS, are the fastest 32-bit CMOS attached processors available. The VP-2 is a dual compute head version of the 50 MFLOPS VP-1 and they take up 21 of a 19 rack. The VP Series supports a 100Mbytes-per-second aggregate main memory bandwidth and the input-output subsystem supports up to three channels and operates at up to 50Mbps on the direct memory access channel so that the VPs can move and process data simultaneously. The VPs can be used with IBM 370-type hosts, DEC Unibus, Q-bus and VAXBI machines as well as those from Concurrent Computer, Gould Computer, Sun Microsystems and Alliant Computer Systems. VPs can be shared by up to three dissimilar hosts and a host can support several VPs. No prices; availability is 90 days.
